No Objection To Declassi cation 2008 06 09 NLc-131-1 -i-zi-7 200 1 i308 REVIEWED 16eApr-2007 DECLASSIFIED IN FU SECRET AMB AMB ADCM AMBIX CHRON AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI fa SECSTATE wAsHDc IMMEDIATE if 99 E 0 12356 DECL OADR TAGS US IN AF SUBJECT MEETING DISCUSSION OF AFGHANISTAN 1 - ENTIRE TEXT 2 ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 I HAD A TWO-HOUR CONVERSATION WITH DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR RONEN SEN THE MEETING WAS AT HIS REQUEST AND WAS DEVOTED TO GIVING US A DETAILED READOUT ON THE STRICTLY PRIVATE MEETINGS BETWEEN GANDHI AND THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE AND THE AGREEMENTS SIGNED DURING THE VISIT ARE REPORTED SEPARATELY BY THE EMBASSY THIS MESSAGE DEALS WITH THE DISCUSSION OF AFGHANISTAN WHICH WAS THE ONLY INTERNATIONAL TOPIC DISCUSSED IN DEPTH BY THE TWO LEADERS 3 SEN SAID THAT IN HIS OWN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE INDIAN PRIME MINISTER HAD EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR THE MESSAGE WE HAD PASSED TO HIM ON AFGHANISTAN STATE 361795 THE PRIME MINISTER HAD FOUND OUR MESSAGE TO BE AND SECRET No Objection To Declassi cation 2008 06 09 NLC-131-12-1-4-7 No Objection To Declassi cation 2008 06 09 - SECRETL 4 ACCORDING TO SEN GANDHI MADE THE FOLLOWING POINTS WITH -- SOME OF THE SOVIET OBJECTIVES IN AFGHANISTAN ARE PARALLEL TO THOSE OF INDIA SPECIFICALLY INDIA BELIEVES THAT ANY COALITION OR INTERIM GOVERNMENT WHICH MIGHT EMERGE IN AFGHANISTAN SHOULD NOT BE DOMINATED BY FUNDAMENTALISTS GANDHI OPINED THAT THE VICTORY OF FUNDAMENTALISM IN AFGHANISTAN WOULD AFFECT ADVERSELY THE MUSLIM AREAS OF SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA IT WOULD ALSO AGGAVATE PROBLEMS WITH PAKISTAN OVER KASHMIR INDIA ALSO REALIZES THAT WHATEVER REGIME EMERGES IN KABUL CANNOT BE ANTI-SOVIET INDIA BASICALLY FAVORS A NON-ALIGNED REGIME FOR AFGHANISTAN -- GIVEN THE COMPLEXITIES OF A TRIBAL SOCIETY IN AFGHANISTAN THE DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGES AND ETHNIC AFGHANISTAN DOES NOT LEND ITSELF TO BEING ADMINISTERED BY A VERY CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT INDIA WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING REASONABLY STABLE EMERGE IN FERMENT IN AFGHANISTAN MUST BE EXPECTED BUT ACCEPTANCE OF PERPETUAL TURMOIL AS A NORMAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF ANY -- THE PRESENCE OF SOVIET TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN HAS TARNISHED THE SOVIET IMAGE IN THE WORLD THE SOVIET UNION HAS INDICATED THAT IT WISHES TO WITHDRAW HER TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SUCH A MOVE WOULD BE WELL RECEIVED BY INDIA No Objection To Declassi cation 2008 06 09 117' 3 60 90 8003 0 L UODOBIQO 0N 'S'n ONINNVH -H9IH HLIM NVLSINVHOJV NO NI SNOISSOOSIO O13H OVH SLHIAOS HHL IHONVO Ol OHNOILNHN AOHHZAH - 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